(Reuters) -At a clinic in Sudan’s North Darfur where dozens of bony children lie on cots and men with bandaged wounds await surgery, patients described a desperate escape from the city of al-Fashir as it was captured last week by a paramilitary force.

They are among up to 10,000 people who arrived in the town of Tawila after fleeing the capture of nearby al-Fashir by the Rapid Support Forces, and are now being treated at the clinic run by international aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres.

Famine-stricken al-Fashir was the final stronghold of the Sudanese army in the vast, western Darfur region before it fell to the RSF after an 18-month siege. Witnesses have reported mass killings following the RSF takeover and many of al-Fashir’s residents are unaccounted for.

The city’s capture marked

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